Happens Quotes - Page 26

• I think it's important to balance out what people see today as normal birth, in a hospital room, flat on their backs, usually with an IV and a fetal monitor hooked up to them. That does happen, but other things are possible.

  Ricki Lake

  Thinking, People, Balance

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• Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Credit, Blame

  Twitter post from May 31, 2016

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• Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.

  Pema Chodron

  Perspective, Patient, Painful

  Pema Chodron (2007). “Always Maintain a Joyful Mind: And Other Lojong Teachings on Awakening Compassion and Fearlessness”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

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• In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that’s just ridiculous. It’s as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it’s for a reason.

  William S. Burroughs

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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• Perseverance is more than endurance."
  It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. Perseverance means more than just hanging on, which may only be exposing our fear of letting go and falling. Perseverance is our supreme effort of refusing to believe that our hero is going to be conquered.

  Oswald Chambers

  Letting Go, Perseverance, Hero

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.124, Discovery House

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• Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.

  Dan Millman

  Knowing, Doe, Accepting

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• When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen

  Oprah Winfrey

  Heart, Unexpected, Joyful

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• I find that as we really love and accept and APPROVE OF OURSELVES EXACTLY AS WE ARE, then everything in life works. It's as if little miracles are everywhere. Our health improves, we attract more money, our relationships become much more fulfilling, and we begin to express ourselves in creatively fulfilling ways. All this seems to happen without even trying.

  Louise Hay

  Miracle, Trying, Littles

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• If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it. Why? Because it does. Growth doesn't just happen--not for me, not for you, not for anybody. You HAVE TO go after it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Opportunity, Growth, Doe

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• I don't want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.

  Drew Barrymore

  Want, Good Things, Things Happen

  "Drew Barrymore Style Evolution: From Cute Pigtails To Chanel Dresses" by Michelle Persad, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2013.

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• You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Miracle, May, Might

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• My character Jack in the New York Spring Spectacular is a lot of fun. He's playful, he's full of life. He can make things come to life. He can make things happen.

  Derek Hough

  New York, Fun, Spring

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• A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.

  D. A. Carson

  Waiting, Disaster, Persons

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• Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Way, Bears

  Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• We're often in a hurry to finish. Or in a hurry to close a sale. What happens when we adopt the posture of being in a hurry to be generous? With resources or insight or access or kindness... It's an interesting sort of impatience.

  Seth Godin

  Kindness, Interesting, Impatience

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• The Holy Spirit is not “the Doer,” but rather the “Helper.” He will not do it without us, but if we engage He will help us with what we need to make it happen

  Rick Joyner

  Needs, Doers, Spirit

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• People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

  Philip Yancey

  People, Want, Old Days

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• It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

  Aristotle

  Probability, Improbable

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• Live life and take chances. Believe that everything happens for a reason and don't regret. Love to the fullest and you will find true happiness in life. Realize that things go wrong and people change, but things do go on. Sometimes things weren't meant to be. What is supposed to happen will work its way out.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Regret, Believe, Live Life

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• No one can force you to stand up, speak up and make a difference. But if you back off and play along, please understand that whatever happens happened, at least in part, because you acquiesced.

  Seth Godin

  Play, Differences, Making A Difference

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• Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.

  Bill Cosby

  Math, Thinking, People

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• Once in your life, try something. Work hard at something. Try to change. Nothing bad can happen.

  Jack Ma

  Hard Work, Trying, Hard

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• I try to be available for life to happen to me. We're in this life, and if you're not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it. But if you're available, life gets huge. You're really living it.

  Bill Murray

  Past, Trying, Ordinary

  "Charlie Rose", charlierose.com. February 10, 2014.

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• Know that everything will happen at just the right time, at just the right place, with just the right people.

  Wayne Dyer

  People, Right Time, Right Place

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “The Invisible Force: 365 Ways to Apply the Power of Intention to Your Life: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.274, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.

  Herodotus

  Ifs

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